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Unpopular opinion: While Nostr is undoubtedly one of the most important technologies of the 21st century, I don’t inherently have an issue with social media founders becoming wealthy. The real problem arises when they profit by selling user data and fail to secure it properly. To the Bitcoiners: If a new social media platform truly supported free speech and was free to sign up for but generated revenue via users paid for certain things, would you support or use it? Why or why not? image
2025-01-26 15:53:37 from 1 relay(s) 4 replies ↓
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My personal gripe with traditional social media platforms is not the wealth generated through them, or the data-privacy issues (although they are both so important). But the power / ability to form or skew public opinion [1]. Even small changes in their suggestion or censorship programs could have vast implications on public speech and opinion. I wish not to give them the power to hold my own beliefs, or to experiment with new ones. [1] https://reason.com/2024/08/29/mark-zuckerberg-meta-letter-censorship-facebook/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber
2025-01-29 01:32:43 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent Reply
I would be happy to see such a platform, but I would not use it personally unless it let me sign in with an nsec bunker and had something really useful to offer like a lot of content. Profit doesn't make anything bad, even profiting off of selling user data, provided that the users explicitly consent to this (which they usually don't, that's when it's really bad).
2025-01-31 20:19:44 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent Reply